...tentative definitions, concludes with this: Life Is " the definite combination of definite composite heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive,...correspondence with external coexistences and sequences." K. Vlrchow makes u the vital force to be the expression of the definite oo-worklng of physical and...

...and in a certain sense combined in a definite manner;" and the formula with this addition reads thus: "Life is the definite combination of heterogeneous changes both simultaneous and successive " (id. 69). It seems however that the end is not reached yet— that the is to be preferred to a because...

...Spencer's definition is well known, but is cumbersome, unsatisfactory, and not likely to be popular : — " the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences." Declaru's '• Organisation in Action" is short and crisp and as explicit as present knowledge warrants....

...extended, can illuminate the meaning of the general principle which we call Life. To say, therefore, that " Life is the definite combination of heterogeneous...correspondence with external coexistences and sequences," is to say that an organism is an instance of the adjustment of its internal activities to its external...

...extended, can illuminate the meaning of the general principle which we call Life. To say, therefore, that " Life is the definite combination of heterogeneous...correspondence with external coexistences and sequences," is to say that an organism is an instance of the adjustment of its internal activities to its external...

...certain eminent philosopher in England wil' say, whenever there shall be an England to say it in — ' is the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences.' I have, fortunately, a few years of this before me yet; and I suppose I can permit my surroundings...

...effect of organization, and not the principle or cause of organization. Herbert Spencer defines life as "The definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external co-existences and sequences." This definition Drysdale' has pointed out to be defective, because it does not limit the changes of...

...author, which he urges is an unthinkable proposition. Life is explained by Mr. Herbert Spencer as " the definite combination of heterogeneous changes,...correspondence with external coexistences and sequences," — an elaborate description, but one which fails to convey anything but some of the effects of life,...

...of a double face of a somewhat? Herbert Spencer's definition of life came to my mind : " Life is a definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both...correspondence with external coexistences and sequences." All these definitions •violate the first principles of clear and definite thinking, and seem to have...

...the subject is therefore resumed in Chapter V., in which we reach the following final form : — ". Life is the definite combination of heterogeneous...simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistenccs and sequences. Or the formula may be given in this simpler form : 8. Life is the continuous...